Introduction

The Department of Civil Engineering, BUET is the largest Department of this university. The degrees that are offered by this department are B. Sc. in engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

, M. engineering, M. Sc. in engineering and Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

. This department offers the best Civil engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

 education in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. The department has its own building situated at the campus of BUET. All the class rooms, laboratory, library offices are located in this building.

Structure

More than 800 undergraduate students as well as 400 graduate students are currently studying in this renowned department. There are almost 65 faculty members comprising over 45 professors and others who are dedicated in teaching the students along with a lot of research work for the betterment of the country. The department of Civil Engineering has four major divisions:

• Environmental Engineering
  Environmental engineering
  Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
  
  
• Geo-technical Engineering
  Geotechnical engineering
  Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. Geotechnical engineering is important in civil engineering, but is also used by military, mining, petroleum, or any other engineering concerned with construction on or in the ground...
  
  
• Structural Engineering
  Structural engineering
  Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty within civil engineering, but it can also be studied in its own right....
  
  
• Transportation Engineering

The divisions offer basic and advanced optional courses in the above disciplines.

Contribution

Research of this department of this department is extremely important in the national level, which include areas like behavior of present structures situated in various parts of the country, proper usage of building materials, observing the properties soil in various parts of the country, seismic zoning, waste management

Waste management

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal,managing and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics...

, controlling environmental pollution, assessing environmental impacts, modeling the transport system as well as studying traffic studies.

Some of these research have brought about great result. Like incorporation of Bangladesh National Building Code which was completed in 1993. Many other research projects of more fundamental nature have greatly contributed to the advancement of greater knowledge.

1. http://www.buet.ac.bd/ce/